Brick by brick to send homesickness, a tree and grass total affection. The ancient city is not only the "witness" of urban history, but also the "custodian" of cultural heritage. Time is silent, together with the long history, all the glory and romance, wind and rain and vicissitudes of life, engraved in the ancient city of blue bricks and grey tiles. Here is the precious culture preserved in the long history of modern cities, but also a vivid portrayal of the long history, extensive and profound Chinese civilization.

How has life in the ancient city changed over time? How to make the city retain its memory and let people remember nostalgia? On the occasion of the 17th "Cultural and Natural Heritage Day" in China, The Voice of China has launched a special program called "Listen to the City where Time flows". Today (October 10), the program "Poetry and Distance of Heshun Ancient Town" will be broadcast.

Through 600 years, there is no lack of beauty and no lack of books

With a history of more than 600 years, Heshun ancient town is located in Tengchong, Yunnan province, the first frontier city. It is a frontier town for overseas Chinese along the Southwest Silk Road. During the Hongwu Period of the Ming Dynasty, soldiers from Sichuan and Hunan settled here, took root and multiplied, and the Han culture of the Central Plains, the cultures of border and local minorities, and the cultures of South And Southeast Asia converged here. The cultural gene of harmony and harmony is engraved in the blood of the original inhabitants. Even today, it still accumulates and flows continuously.

And harmonious

36-year-old Cunyin's family has lived in Heshun ancient Town for generations. Here, there are hundreds of century-old mansions, ancestral halls, temples, memorial archways, platforms and other classic buildings, making people linger and forget to leave. South Asian-style doors, European-style Windows, British iron work, four courtyards and five courtyards, three rooms and one wall, etc. Cun Yin is familiar with these "living fossils" :

Inch Silver: This iron gate was made in Britain in 1938, shipped to Burma and carried back to Heshun by horse. It is still in use and needs a coat of oil after a while. The iron gate looks very ordinary and ordinary now, but in the past, it was a very fashionable symbol.

Heshun alley

Along the Southwest Silk Road, Heshun people went abroad hundreds of years ago to "Yifang", the birth of the oldest transnational business, set off the earliest transnational trade upsurge in Yunnan. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, more than 10,000 horses and goods from more than 30 countries flowed along this ancient road every day. In the past, the horse gangs on the Silk Road have been frozen in the streets and become sculptures. However, over the centuries, various cultures have blended with each other, forming a unique "poetry and Distance" of Heshun:

We are going to visit heshun Library. Now the collection of books includes many rare, rare and rare books...

Heshun Library in Cunyinkou was founded in 1928 with donations from the local Overseas Chinese in Myanmar. It now has a collection of 130,000 volumes, the largest collection of rural libraries in China, and has been identified as a national key cultural relic protection unit.

Wo Shun Library

After more than 90 years of wind and rain, Heshun Library is still relatively intact in its original appearance. The flowers and trees in the library are sparse, the buildings are exquisite and elegant, and there are an endless flow of borrowers. Heshun people can be said to be "reading books while herding cows". "When we and shunren were busy farming, we would go to the fields to do some work. After that, we would go home for dinner, wash our feet by the river and come to the library to read books and newspapers. Local villagers and students came to get library cards, and there were thousands of them."

Wo Shun Library

Under the influence of open and inclusive Heshun culture, heshun ancient town is full of people and philosophers, such as Marxist philosopher Ai Siqi, who was born here. Cunyu, curator of Heshun Library, said, "His popular Philosophy led 100,000 young people to the revolutionary path and to Yan 'an. The popular Philosophy also opened up two precedents: the popularization and popularity of philosophy, so that some poor people can understand; It is also a pioneer in adapting Marxism to China."

Heshun Ai Siqi former residence

Generations of He-shun children read, read, and learned about the world, and the idea of worship and education was hidden in every fireworks in the town. Brain, a local specialty snack, is made with glutinous rice cake, egg, shredded pork and sweet white wine. Its special meaning is "smart and clever".

Kid: One year for brains, one year for brains.

Smart elder sister: doused with juice can eat, eat so that you can be admitted to university, "have a head and brain".

The ancient town has "poetry and The Distance"

In heshun ancient town in early summer, the streets paved with green stone slabs are full of sunshine. Cunyin SAN Shu hands of the cane fiber back and forth, woven into tengchong one of the three treasures - cane chair; One of the cane admires is connected to the past, one is connected to the present. Heavy historical accumulation, rich cultural atmosphere, idyllic and beautiful landscape have brought new historical opportunities for the tourism industry development of Heshun ancient Town: In November 2020, Heshun ancient Town was listed in the national 5A-level tourist scenic spot creation list.

And in the corner of

Once, and shun people rely on out of the town to struggle, but now, Inch silver and her husband Yang Zonglei can touch more possibility in their hometown: Inch silver house, before only some melon melon beans, is now also transformed into a folk inn. In the mind of The Inch Silver and more heshun people, this piece of ancient folk houses is the most precious wealth handed down from the ancestors, every tree and grass, brick and tile, should be carefully cared for and preserved. Ms. Cunyin and Mr. Yang's four-room inn, with a small terrace, offers scenic views of the wetlands and birds, including crested ibises, purple waterfowl and cranes, that draw many visitors for photos.

Heshun panoramic

From protecting the wetlands to maintaining the ancient buildings of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Heshun people take good care of their hometown, making it a "poem and distance" for more people. At present, Heshun town has 485 inns and hotels, more than 6,000 beds, 212 specialty restaurants, and more than 70% of the residents of the town are involved in tourism. According to the relevant person in charge, "The good ecology and strong cultural atmosphere are the best and brightest name cards of Heshun and tengchong, as well as the greatest potential and advantage of revitalizing the ancient town. We have ensured that ancient villages and buildings remain intact and their features remain unchanged. Meanwhile, we have made the original heshun residents' humble, simple and elegant folk customs the endogenous driving force for continuous cultural exchanges, so as to achieve harmonious coexistence of new development and historical features."

Heshun alley

Heshun Yuan Longge

Old houses, ancestral halls, alleys, streams... Today, Heshun shows a new charm, but The familiar things are always there:

Inch Silver daughter: Mom, hurry up!

Inch silver: good, run a little faster, let's catch it. They go really fast, don't they? What a lot of duck eggs!

Inch Silver daughter: Here's one!

Cunyin: Yes, there is another one. Look, this duck egg is so small.Heshun Double Hongqiao

Heshun laundry Booth

Inch silver and his daughter still adhere to the ancient town of Heshun duck under the river in the morning, pick up the custom of duck eggs, inheritance will be the source of eternal charm of Heshun.

Qing Dynasty Heshun hometown scholar Huang Qicxiang "Chant Heshun" : the distant mountains through the rain cui heavy, overlapping water sound baiyunshufeng. Road to double bridge resort, spring ring water like changhong......

Heshun old town

Source: Voice of China